skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work and very handy.

I hadn't come across filepicker.io before and reading through the geturl code something jumped out at me:

APIKEY = check_output(['curl', '--silent', "%(fpurl)s/getKey?email=%(email)s" % {'fpurl': FPAPIURL, 'email': email}])

From that, it looks like any random person can fill up your filepicker.io space providing they have your API key or know the email address you used to register the account with. Made sense when I read a bit more about what filepicker.io actually does (i.e. a client-side embeddable javascript file uploader) but it's something to be aware of (especially if you link your account up to an S3 backend!).
Ah, I hadn't realized Ultrabook was some Intel thing, and was going to make a snarky comment about how my MacBook Air is the nicest computer I've ever owned... I guess this means the category has huge potential not to suck
I have a 4.5 year old girl. I'm 100% certain that I want her to pursue a career in IT, if that is what she desires. Hopefully by the time she's old enough she not only won't have to deal with the sort of misogynistic crap like the one pointed out in the article, but the sort of "get over it" responses that encourage this sort of rubbish.

P.S. What sort of stupid comment is "you've never raised a woman"? What, you can only be upset about sexism if you've had children? Or, for that matter, have a daughter?

That there is someone voting you up is a real shame.
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Apparently I live right next doors to their office. Explains why I keep running in to Notch wherever I go, almost started to think he was stalking me :)

Personally I wouldn't had gone in the "gentlemen's club"-direction, feels a bit old and stuffy as well as having some bad connotations (if it isn't meant to be ironic that is) but each to their own I guess :)
Did you pirate that copy of Photoshop too? Show us your /etc/hosts file!

Hah I tease, I tease. But seriously though.
32 pages and a little package was probably not even a week worth of work. Considering he made millions, it was pretty trivial, in my book.
Postbox? Uses Thunderbird's backend paired with Mail's frontend. Not bad, still a memory and disk hog though.
Oh man! This is useful. Thanks.
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It's not in Apple (or any phone maker) control today. With current technology you pipe 8 kHz voice to the wireless modem and the encoding is done there, following strictly defined cellular standards. So it's in the operator control.
Not again this. It started like a good summary of a conference I'd love to attend to but then it became the usual drama blog post.

"Look, someone said something stupid. Let's call out the whole community for that. Because white males are literary Hitler or worse."

Yes, there are jerks. It's time to get over it.
Erm, if you get more utility for violence from a stick than a gun, I believe you may need to revisit your firearms training. I'm not sure you're doing it right.
Wow, had a VERY nice experience with this - I am impressed. MacBook Air, OSX 10.8 on latest version of Chrome. Well done, hope I can plug this into a pet project someday.
I don't see why this is on the HN front page.
Un-fucking-believable!

This is exactly what I needed to help people visualize their code. I can't tell you how many beginners have a hard time figuring out how a program steps through their code and this is a huge win there.

Huge thanks!
suits.
As opposed to Amazon philosophy which is to sell hardware to allow people to access their ecosystem, which is their main source of money.
That seems really high given that new or nearly new hand guns easily go for less than $200. But again, I don't buy a lot of illegal guns myself.
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> Network operators might not care about that if voice didn't contribute so much to the money they make off each user. There may well come a time when their revenue will come solely from data traffic. At that point, the networks shouldn't care whether voice is handled by their app, Skype's or another - it's all just data, after all.

I would actually be quite happy if this came to be true. Both mobile and at home the main use of my service is data, but both come bundled with a voice plan that I don't use. Heck we don't even have the phone plugged in at home as it isn't used. I would happily get a data only plan if one was available at a good rate.
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Scientists ask for legal safeguards to keep their work out of court
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601705
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601705

But you knew that, because it was you who submitted the same story three times in under 10 minutes.
Oh man, I thought that was just me!

"Hmm, have I got a round face or a square face? What shape are my ears?" I HAVE NO IDEA.
Idiots do say stupid things. But just shrugging it off as Yet Another Idiot does not improve the situation. People getting their "feathers all ruffled" is how we can show that this sort of behavior is not acceptable and should not be supported.

Computing may be a sausage fest, but there's no reason we can't change that and there's no reason we can't aspire to being a professional discipline.
As meanguy pointed out, the Mono team lost Novell's backing -- arguably, they never had it in the first place. Xamarin is now focused entirely on mobile, to the detriment of the core CLR implementation and web.

Not that I blame them in the least. I've been a huge fan of Miguel for years, and they're doing great things in the mobile space. I just can't in good conscience invest heavily in Mono knowing that it's essentially at a dead end -- particularly when other much more attractive web technologies have been released since .NET's inception.

The reality is that Microsoft never really wanted to build a cross-platform CLR. They wanted a great Java-like runtime that only works on Windows. If that matches up with your goals, then by all means use .NET, but be prepared for a tough slog later on if you want to escape Windows.
For those that aren't familiar, SemiAccurate is more of a tabloid rumors site than a hardcore technology site. Sort of like The Sun for silicon.

They love to blow failures well out of proportion. BumpGate (nVidia's packaging recall problem), Fermi (nVidia's late and hot GPGPU), Tegra (nVidia's... are we seeing a pattern?)

Sort of like the drunk and bitter (but frankly more knowledgeable) uncle of ExtremeTech.

I'm a regular reader, and enjoy it, so this isn't an attack... I'm just recommending, along with the articles, an additional dose of a large grain of salt.

Especially if it's a nVidia article.
Computing is neither a professional discipline nor a boys club. Historically, it's been a sausage fest, and computing will never be a professional discipline so long as there are people out there willing to write PHP for fifteen dollars an hour and engineers are put out to pasture at 35.

Aside from the fact that PHP, while I personally would never use it, can and has been used to write scalable software, computing is more than just a few poor coders.

It's a bit like saying that being a doctor can't be considered a profession because there are homeopaths. Your argument is neither convincing or logical.
ok, confused and completely out of the loop here, so apologies in advance - i guess this is going to be either "how could he think that?" or "how can he not know that?".

but the 3 p thing. is it supposed to be "penises"?

[edit: huh. so now here's a clear case where number of votes visible would be a useful feature in HN! my guess is that "pussy" was what was intended (or misunderstood), in the context of the post.] [edit to clarify the previous edit: there used to be two replies; one for "penis" and one for "pussy"] [also, to explain how i didn't get this, i'm a uk english speaker, who left the country some 20 years ago, so "pussy" isn't really part of my vernacular - i think back then, at least, it was an american word.]
Foul? What about it do you not like? It seems a bit over the top to me (it's an office not a private club) but interested as to why you dislike it so much.
XBOX 360 avatars can be extremely customizable and are stored in a 3D format on MS servers (and likely on the console itself). The recognize many friends online because of their avatar.

I'd pay $$ to have a 3d printout of my XBOX 360 avatar...perhaps even with articulating appendages.
There are seven comments here. One says "There's no point getting your feathers all ruffled over something like this" and two(!) say "Get over it". That's the reason I keep upvoting these things here. HN seems to be one of the places that really could use more exposure to this.
Quite true. On my old Verizon Motorola P8767 (a color flip phone -- it had four colors) I could enter "engineering mode" and increase the bitrate of voice calls over the network. It meant you were using more than your share of the voice pipe, but at least my voice sounded excellent.

Switching to a 2007 AT&T iPhone from Verizon was the equivalent of going back to two tin cans on a string. A string that a vengeful voice god would cut at random between 5 and 15 minutes every call.
TDK areal density breakthrough paves way for 6TB hard drives
This article seems particularly biased against Intel - it gets down to what are almost character attacks at points.

I'd love to see a more level-headed analysis of the Ultrabook space. There's over a hundred different ones now (which may in itself be a problem), and some have replaceable RAM/hard drives, some have full-height Ethernet, and it's at least made the OEMs think about decent industrial design (and in the case of Asus and Lenovo, I think that's worked).

It's not some massive panacea, but I for one welcome the new boon of lighter, thinner and better-built laptops.
I had to go to the Wikipedia page for Kivy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivy

to find out that the "Kivy language" is QML! Seems to me that should have been spelt out a bit more clearly too.

It looks great!
At this point if someone doesn't post a blog post about Noah Kagan being sexist at least once a week he'll have to have died.
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What?

There may always be idiots who say stupid things, but when they are given a venue there is nothing whatsoever wrong with calling them out. That’s the reality.

Why are you getting your panties in a bunch by people pointing idiots out? I really don’t get that.
A better article than this agenda driven Charlie Demerjian rant.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/02/lets-take-another-l...
Here in Europe business parks aren't really that popular for tech companies (unless you work for something like IBM, but I'd guess they'd have their own canteens), most are based in the city centre which is nice for lunches.
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I see the usual grab bag of men making excuses for misogyny in software is out in force on Hacker News:

* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just idiots being idiots.

* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just jerks being jerks.

* Dismissive pedantry over the claim that women are deterred from software by incidents of sexism.

* Blaming women themselves for not going into software.

And all of it laced with blithe stereotyping language ("panty bunching equivalent", "bitching", "drama" and so on).

This predictably depressing reaction hasn't been good enough for a long time. The reason more women aren't in software is staring us right in the face but we're too busy being dismissively sexist to see it.
Exactly - I'm actually considering going to the Kindle because it supposedly has a mode where you can determine what your children have access to.
Do people tend to be inspired by, or intimidated by, other successful people?
foul? really?
Exactly. Most small tech companies that I've worked for have always been in city centre locations.
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Secretly, Pitney Bowes (the company that handles all of the hardcopy mail billing already) is working on this. I got an early look at their ipad and webapp and it is surprisingly sexy. Instead of waiting for a startup to try and cobble together a ton of hard to work with enterprises, PB already has everyone on board due to longstanding billing relationships which is awesome. SHHHHHH don't tell anyone...
What exactly is the problem? My next notebook would probably be an Ultrabook, and the reviews of some of the models didn't sound so bad. Some look good, too - that alone is a huge improvement, given that until recently all notebooks except Macs were extremely ugly (in huge part owed to the tasteless use of "piano lacquer").

My only gripe at the moment is the screen formats. Once again Apple seems to be the only one that gets it right. Those widescreens are just too tiny (all 13'' are not the same).

What other computer besides an Ultrabook would you buy (Apple excluded)? I praise lightness above most other features.
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In that case, people should stop asking him to their conferences to speak. Conferences about IT are not forums for stand up comedians. Besides which, people like Eddie Murphy or Sarah Silverman do offensive comedy better.
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This is some kind of ultimate mancave, I can't imagine a girl working in there.
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Pussy.

Incidentally, I'm just answering the question. The one speaking the original sentence I don't have much time for.
"Indistinguishable from a a landline" is a pretty low standard. Landlines have terrible quality compared to nearly every VoIP system I've used.
My prepaid €20 3G SIM with 15 GB gives me a responsive network connection with low variance latency. Know what that means? I just open up Skype and use it for every call back home. Works better than Skype over any public shared 802.11 network.

YMMVUYAIET (your mileage may very unless you are in europe too)
I appreciate seeing an office for a successful indie company that doesn't consist of brick facades, exposed ventilation and a big open room filled with people, computers, video game consoles and foosball tables. I just appreciate the slightly more mature look than I'm used to seeing glorified in office pictorials for tech companies.

That being said, I don't see ANY computers there, so maybe they just didn't picture their brickwork in this photo shoot.
You know, I personally wouldn't spend $11.99 on this, but I have no doubt that plenty of people will fork that out with ease. I love how you can create genuine value from virtually nothing. This makes people happy and doesn't waste tons of stuff in the process.
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Not sure if you're joking or not, but someone will take it at face value even if you are. We don't actually stock bullets in the supermarket.

Some Walmart stores do carry them, but you have to remember that Walmart is not a supermarket. They started out as a discount store and about 15 years ago they also started selling food.

Walmart sold guns long before they sold groceries.
Linkbait -> flagged.

It's merely another ``There is misogyny in CS, we gotta do something''.

Lacking in OP:

- hard facts how it impacts us,
- useful proposals,
- *any* insight.
I don't know if you were joking, but I'd like to point out that at a Super Walmart in the US you can buy both ammunition and a gallon of milk.
There's nothing wrong with PHP as a language, but I've never seen people offering to write python for fifteen dollars an hour.

And it's not like saying that doctors aren't a profession because there are homeopaths, because homeopaths aren't doctors. The segment of our industry that is more EE than CS is highly professional, somewhat organized, and relatively mature for an industry only fifty years old, but they are a small, nonvocal segment of our industry and they tend to distance themselves from the people who call themselves "developers."
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Seems to be quite a different story to me: Mojang has, with minimal expenses, already created an extremely successful (and profitable) game. It seems that they are now using some of that cash to get a really nice office.

Ion Storm on the other hand basically used their fame and some promises of a future product to get a load of cash from investors, and spent that on a very nice office.
It's got nothing to do with being a white male. That a white male said it is incidental. In fact it wasn't even mentioned in the article.

As a white male, however, I'd like to say to other white males (and everyone else) - cut out the bullshit sexism in your tech talk. I didn't come for your ridiculous views on women when I go to these talks. I care about tech. Your sexist views detract from your message, and I'll consider you a moron if you think sexist jokes are funny.
I have nothing to add to this other than what "The Real Katie" said in "Lighten Up"

http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/

>>

Every time I spoke up about the above crap, I got some sympathy, but I also got some guy who didn't understand what the big deal was. If I wasn't in the middle of being raped or beaten or threatened or fired, guess what I needed to do?

Lighten up.

How long would you put up with it? Do you love anything that much? If your spouse subtly treated you like crap every day, how long would your marriage last? If you saw a friend being treated this way by their boss, wouldn't you tell them to quit?

Or would you tell them to lighten up?

You, person who told me to lighten up, saw one little thing. It didn't seem like a big deal, did it? One little line! One joke! One comment! But it's not just one thing to me: it's one of thousands that I've had to endure since I was old enough to be told that 'X is for boys!' It's probably not even the first thing I've had to deal with that day, unless you've gotten to me pretty early.

That's the main problem with subtle discrimination. It leaves those that it affects the most powerless against it, quietly discouraging them. If they speak up, they're treated to eye rolls at the least, and at the worst, are called oppressors themselves. We're accused of not wanting equal rights, but of wanting tyranny.
Another "why can't they do this already" technology that impacts millions of people every day: seamless GSM to wifi (and back) handoff. They had specs, prototypes, and demos back in 2004. It never went anywhere. Is it just because "they" wanted to overcharge for microcell hardware and tack on monthly fees?

Imagine being on a call outside, walking inside, through an elevator, and up to your room/office/flat/apartment and not have the call disconnect. No GSM repeaters in the loop. Your call went from AT&T->Wifi VoIP automatically and it'll switch back to GSM when you leave wireless range again.
So say, every Android and iPhone Devices, and may be Windows Phone 8 will come with a default hidden VoIP inside, if it is collected using LTE it will use that instead, the data would then be discounted over in the Mobile Network. This to act as a temp solution until VoLTE comes.

Like Jeremy Clarkson in Top Gear, How hard can it be?

The article also fails to mention why VoLTE is hard and takes so long. It said many different network operator has many different implementations. And even if that is true there is only a handful of network provider these days that network operator uses, Errisson, Nokia-Simens, ZTE, Huawei, and i dont know who else. ( Samsung?? ) They had to test again 3 others. Again how hard could that be?
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Where can I hire a designer to build a press pack for me?
I am a one man startup, and though I could do this myself, I am about to approach magazines for marketing as I have no seed.

1-My site is a small "service" which involves modelling. What is vital for me to do to make the press pack apealling?

2-How can I get hold a design student, or any in general for small tasks? For example a media student to film a clip for a kickstarter demo for example?

Thank you for your feedback (I cant get into IRC today)
Yes, was about to respond and say exactly this. The frequency response is something like 300-3500Hz (vs. 20Hz to 20kHz for normal human hearing), and the dynamic range is also pretty mediocre. Skype is much better, and many in-network cell calls that never touch POTS also have better call quality already than landline phones do.
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Well, it could be those giant statues on Easter Island ... or a quick Google search for "moai lua" turns up this: http://getmoai.com
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Defining what is and isn't a profession can't be defined by hourly rates of pay for low level work.

Let's put it another way - just because some people dig ditches doesn't stop construction from being a profession.

The fact is that Computer Science is a profession. You might not like certain things about it, but you are deadset wrong if you don't consider it a profession.
Woz might have been influential back in the day, but let's face it: he also had zero business sense. If it was up to Woz, they would have given away the computer he had built for free, and he would still be a lowly and unknown engineer working for HP. Jobs was the one who figured out how to monetize Woz's hard work. That's why Apple was founded and led by Jobs.

I'm actually saddened that after 30 years of working for Apple, Woz still hasn't learned that coddling your competitors and giving up your competitive advantages are bad for business.

edit: gotta love the ninja downvotes. Must have touched a nerve. :)
Not to brag, but the midtown Manhattan food selection is outstanding.

http://midtownlunch.com/lunch-by-food-type/
The State of the Internet (great slides by Business Insider)
a tutorial on how the site was made?
Real time map of buses in Vilnius, Lithuania: http://stops.lt/vilnius/#bus/map
It also shows the speed of bus if you click on a blue bubble.
Hi, I'm the author. We are a new online travel agency (OTA), like pricline, et. al., but different in that we don't take the booking - we send you off to the actual hotel website to book.
This is how you change forgotten BIOS password on newer Thinkpads.
You mean the "pick language" menu which doesn't seem to do anything...?

Hmm, well the page looks generally pretty fsck'd up, so who knows.
Since we send the visitor off to the owning hotel chain's website to book, we don't have to manage the complexity of update such as you're describing.
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So out of a profanity-laced presentation with embarrassing audience tricks what really got the author was saying that entrepreneurs may be motivated by money, (helping?) people and -- gasp! -- sex? The guy even went back to be more politically correct and explicitly included women and gays.

How much bad will does it take to interpret that, fairly biologically obvious, remark in some twisted way to mean "women are not people"?
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Yup, same. Bought / reserved the username 'just in case', nothing more.
At Room Key we're using Amazon's DNS solution for load balancing (lowest latency).
OK here one for the HN cowed! What light wait laptop would you get for $800?

Would it be an ultra book?
Strong wink wink